Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 20
... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sen- timent as some ...
... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sen- timent as some ...
Page 28
... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined and symmetrical features , whose eye - sock- ets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side ...
... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined and symmetrical features , whose eye - sock- ets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side ...
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... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts , 40 HISTORY .
... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts , 40 HISTORY .
Page 48
... face , one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
... face , one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
Page 49
... effort and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children , babes , and VOL II . 4 even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that SELF - RELIANCE . 49.
... effort and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children , babes , and VOL II . 4 even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that SELF - RELIANCE . 49.
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